Political Thought in England From Locke to Bentham
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Hisgenius, as his metaphysics show, lay essentially in his power ofdestruction; and the man who gave solipsism to philosophy was not likelyto effect a new creation in politics. In part, also, the condition ofthe time gave little stimulus to novelty. Herein Hume was born ageneration too early. Had he written when George III attempted thedestruction of the system of the Revolution, and when America and Francecombined to raise again the basic questions of politics, he might havedone therein what A...dam Smith effected in his own field. But the time hadnot yet come; and it was left to Burke and Bentham to reap where he hadsown. CHAPTER V SIGNS OF CHANGE I From Hume until the publication of Burke's _Present Discontents_ (1770)there is no work on English politics of the first importance. Walpolehad fallen in 1742; but for the next fifteen years his methods dominatedthe parliamentary scene. It was only with the advent of the elder Pittto power that a new temper may be observed, a temper quickened by whatfollowed on the accession of George III.
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